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we deliver legal services to our clients in the most efficient and effective manner possible

experienced staff

...we have on board a highly experienced and professional team of solicitors and support staff...

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Trenches solicitors is a long established legal firm that has serviced the residents of Lismore and surrounding districts since the early 1900's.

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Ian Savins

....is a Senior Consultant to the firm, admitted firstly as a Barrister and then admitted to practice as a Solicitor with this firm since 5 December 1975. Mr Savins is qualified to practice law in NSW and Queensland and holds an appointment as an Arbitrator for the President of the Law Society of New South Wales. Mr Savins conducts an extensive commercial, probate and conveyancing practice.

Brendan Ware

...Partner. Admitted as a solicitor and barrister in South Australia on 3 March 1997 and in New South Wales on 30 July 1998. Brendan began his legal career as an associate to von Doussa J of the Federal Court and has since spent many years in general commercial and litigation practice.

John Goodwin

John Goodwin was born at South Gundurimba and raised on a dairy farm. He then attended South Lismore Public School and later Lismore High School before going to Sydney University to obtain a Batchelor of Laws and Batchelor of Economics.

He joined McKenzie Cox in 1980 and has been with that firm ever since and has extensive experience in conveyancing, Wills, Probates and Leases and holds a Law Society Accreditation as a specialist in business law.

John's particular areas of focus are conveyancing, Wills and in particular Testamentary Trusts and more complex Wills and the general administration of Estates and Estate Planning.

David Balzer

David was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 2007. Throughout his legal career David has worked locally on the Northern Rivers and is experienced in wills and estate planning, probate and deceased estates, commercial and retail leasing and general commercial matters.